Es ist unfaßbar, was da abgeht...Our worst fears are coming true.
A new anti-wolf bill was just introduced, adding Washington State, Oregon and Utah to the growing list of states where Congress is trying to force wolves off the Endangered Species list.
This bill wouldn’t just strip federal Endangered Species Act protections – it would prohibit the states from offering wolves certain vital protections. Even if they wanted to.
With bills attempting to delist wolves in four other states, these bills could be the nail in the coffin for gray wolf conservation in the Lower 48.
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These bills could be a veritable death sentence for thousands of wolves. And it would be a premature and tragic end 20 years of progress for wolf conservation.
And it’s not only wolves. Every day brings fresh horrors from anti-wildlife forces. Driven by big money special interests, extremists in Congress have unleashed a torrent of proposals that could:
Relax restrictions on trade in elephant ivory in the midst of the worst poaching crisis in years;
Pave the way for oil and gas drilling in the fragile coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge; and
Restrict access to the courts to enforce the protection of animals listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Gruß
Wolf